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Roger Vaughan

Hawks tread carefully with son of a gun's future

Hawthorn hope Cooper Hodge (r) will stay in a Hawks guernsey if he plays in the AFL (Julian Smith/AAP PHOTOS)

Hawthorn coach Sam Mitchell is toeing a softly, softly public line as Cooper Hodge weighs up where he might try for an AFL career.

The 16-year-old son of Hawthorn great Luke Hodge trained at Waverley this week before heading back to Brisbane, where he lives.

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